To beef up security in the jails, Haryana Government has decided to install 109 mobile phone jammers in the jails of the State at a cost of more than Rs68.22 crore. A spokesman said that the proposal pertains to all state jails except Gurugram. A separate proposal to sanction an amount of over Rs10.64 crore for installation of 17 mobile jammers in district Jail, Gurugram, had already been sent to the Government. The mobile phone jammers will be installed in jails in the wake of increasing incidents of cell phones getting slipped into prisons in Haryana. In the first phase, 14 mobile phone jammers model EC-SJJE-200 will be installed by ECIl, a Government of India undertaking. Jammers of the same model would be installed in the remaining jails of the State for which budgetary provision of over Rs68.22 crore has been made in the current financial year, he added. There are three central jails including one in Ambala and two in Hisar and 16 district jails in Gurugram, Faridabad, Jind, Karnal, Narnaul,
Rohtak, Sonepat, Palwal, Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Kaithal, Kurukshetra, Rewari, Sirsa, Yamunanagar and Panipat in Haryana.